Public war, private conscience : the ethics of political violence / / Andrew Fiala.
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| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xv, 177 p. |
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Table of Contents:
- The sublime grind of Ares
- The war of public and private
- Plato's prophecy and Kant's dream
- Democratic control and professional ethics
- The military establishment
- The democratic peace myth : from Kant and Mill to Hiroshima and Baghdad
- The vanity of temporal things : Hegel and the ethics of war
- American ambivalence : militarism, pacifism, and pragmatism
- Sliding scales and the mischief of war
- Waterboarding, torture, and violence
- Conscientious refusal and the liberal tradition
- Public myths and private protest.